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Book Reviews, Carl B. Swisher (Reviewer), Elvin E. Overton (Reviewer), Jay Murphy (Reviewer), Charlotte Williams (Reviewer), Alexander Holtzoff (Reviewer)
Book Reviews, Carl B. Swisher (Reviewer), Elvin E. Overton (Reviewer), Jay Murphy (Reviewer), Charlotte Williams (Reviewer), Alexander Holtzoff (Reviewer)
Vanderbilt Law Review
Book Reviews
LIONS UNDER THE THRONE
By Charles P. Curtis, Jr.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1947. Pp. xviii, 368. $3.50
MR. JUSTICE BLACK: THE MAN AND His OPINIONS
By John P. Frank (Introduction by Charles A. Beard)
New York: Knopf Company, 1949.Pp. xix, 357. $4.00
ON UNDERSTANDING THE SUPREME COURT
By Paul A. Freund
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1949. Pp. vi, 130. $3.00
MELVILLE VESTON FULLER: CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE UNITED STATES, 1888-1919
By Willard L. King
New York: Macmillan Company, 1950. Pp.394. $5.00
CHIEF JUSTICE STONE AND THE SUPREME COURT
By Samuel J. Konefsky (Prefatory Note by Charles A. …
State Taxation Of Interstate Commerce --"Direct Burdens," "Multiple Burdens," Or What Have You?, Edward L. Barrett Jr.
State Taxation Of Interstate Commerce --"Direct Burdens," "Multiple Burdens," Or What Have You?, Edward L. Barrett Jr.
Vanderbilt Law Review
The problem of determining the permissible extent of state taxation of interstate commerce is as old as the Constitution.' From Chief Justice Marshall's dissertation upon the subject in 1827 in Brown v. Maryland to the present, thousands of pages of words upon the subject have found their way into the Supreme Court reports. Despite this judicial outpouring, however, the Supreme Court of the United States has yet to evolve a satisfactory theory upon which to decide cases in this field. In fact, the Court in 1951 appears as sharply divided in its basic approach to the problem as at anytime …
A Modern Supreme Court In A Modern World, Charles F. Curtis
A Modern Supreme Court In A Modern World, Charles F. Curtis
Vanderbilt Law Review
It is all very well, indeed it is very good, to bear down on the fact that the author of the Constitution was, and still is, "We the People of the United States." But there is more sentiment than explanation in it. We think too much about who is the author of the Constitution. Of course it was not the Convention of 1789, nor the First Congress which wrote the Bill of Rights, nor the Thirty-Ninth which wrote the Fourteenth Amendment. It was We the People, but even when we have recognized this, all we have done is recognize that …